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Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene: prospects for treatment of heart disease.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Dec 2007
Cooke Glen E, Doshi Amit, Binkley Philip F
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Nitric oxide functions as a signaling molecule with a well-established role in vascular homeostasis. It is synthesized from the oxidation of L-arginine by the enzyme, endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). The eNOS gene has a number of polymorphic sites, including SNPs, dinucleotide repeats and variable number tandem repeat sequences, and the opportunity exists to investigate polymorphic functional correlates...
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